President Biden’s time in the White House is mercifully coming to an end. He’s now officially a lame duck with six months to go.

Biden was a victim here of a corrupt Democratic machine (with a complicit media) that thought it could pull off a grand election-year deceit despite Biden’s failing cognitive abilities. 

The establishment and a compliant media convinced millions of primary voters that he was of sound mind and ready to serve four more years. This lust for power put America in danger. How could they be so unpatriotic?

So where will Biden stand in the history books? He wasn’t a failed president because of his declining cognitive abilities. It was his policies that wrecked America.

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From his first days in the Oval Office, he governed from the far left on everything from climate change to radical income redistribution to massive government expansionism to racial politics to a “blame America first” foreign policy to his dangerous weaponization of every agency of government, from the IRS to the State Department to the FBI to the Justice Department and perhaps even the Secret Service. 

He made Richard Nixon look like an amateur.

It’s hard to point to a single policy that he got right. On the economy he was catastrophically bad. The trillions of dollars of debt he rang up bought nothing. 

He sent inflation to the highest levels in almost 40 years. The average family lost $2,000 of income after inflation during his reign. Test scores fell. More people died of COVID-19 during his presidency than in former President Trump’s – despite the availability of the vaccine 

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Interest rates rose. Home ownership became a pipe dream for young people. Homeowners faced mortgage payments that doubled. 

Biden declared war on American energy. He put America back into the corrupt Paris climate accords. The rest of the world went on using more fossil fuels than ever. By impeding U.S. oil and gas production and pipelines, he played into the hands of our enemies – China and Iran.

Gas prices rose. Small business confidence sagged. Two-thirds of Americans consistently told pollsters that the economy was “fair” or “poor.” Poverty rates rose.

Even the one statistic that Biden boasts about – job creation – is a mirage. Most of the jobs were government or health care jobs. With the government borrowing $2 trillion a year, there is no reason the government should be hiring more workers.

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Then there was the sheer incompetence. The bungled Afghanistan withdrawal was a national security disaster. The border became a broken dam, with some 10 million illegals flowing into the country. The government spent $7 billion to build electric vehicles, and only a handful got built.

Biden gave away hundreds of billions of dollars for an illegal and immoral student loan forgiveness program. He put regulators of key agencies in charge even though – or because – they hate business. Less than 10% of his appointees had any business experience. It showed.

He tried to pass mandates that would force Americans to give up their gas cars, gas stoves and other appliances.

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When he departs the White House in January, he will leave the nation poorer, weaker, more divided, more in debt, more vulnerable and less respected than when he entered office.

This was a man who pledged to unite the country and did just the opposite. He deserves to go down in history as one of the five worst presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Here is my list, starting with the worst:

1. Woodrow Wilson
2. Herbert Hoover
3. Jimmy Carter
4. Joe Biden
5. Barack Obama

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Now the Democrats want to run Vice President Kamala Harris, who was on board with every Biden policy and oversaw the worst border catastrophe in modern history.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse.

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Liberal media organizations are largely remaining mum over the unified stance they have embraced in rejecting the unofficial “border czar” label of Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Harris was widely dubbed the “border czar” after President Biden tasked her in March 2021 to address the root causes of mass migration from Central and South America. While the Biden administration has rejected the title, the term was widely used by her critics and even embraced by multiple news organizations, at least until she ascended to the top of the ticket as the Democratic presidential nominee after Biden announced his exit from the race. 

Fox News Digital asked several news organizations, including CNN, MSNBC, CBS, The New York Times and Axios, about their vocal rejection of the “border czar” label in recent days, pressing why all of a sudden they were doing so and whether the Harris campaign pressured them into resisting the label. Most did not respond. 

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PolitiFact gave the claim by Republicans that Harris as border czar was “put in charge of stopping illegal immigration” a “Mostly False” rating. 

Katie Sanders, the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, told Fox News Digital “we were under no pressure to write this article from the Harris campaign, nor from the White House, nor from anyone else.” 

“This is one of many talking points circulating since her recent candidacy, and we heard it during the [Republican National Convention], too. That’s why we decided to start on a fact-check of it at the beginning of the week,” Sanders said. 

USA Today similarly ruled it “false” to say she was “put in charge of the border” and that her role was “more limited” than what a border czar would do. 

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a USA Today spokesperson said, “The USA TODAY Fact Check team works independently. Our team was not in communication with the Harris campaign and we stand by our reporting.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre cited “independent fact-checkers” touting the administration’s talking points on the matter under questioning about Harris this week.

Axios went viral Wednesday with its report about the “border confusion” that has haunted Harris, telling readers “the Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the ‘border czar’ title — which she never actually had.”

However, critics cited Axios’ own reporting from 2021 saying that Biden had appointed Harris “border czar.” Axios later added an editor’s note, stating, “This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ in 2021.”

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CNN also went through a drastic shift. During the Biden-Harris administration, multiple correspondents and commentators referred to Harris as the “border czar,” including analyst Alyssa Farah Griffin.

But this week, CNN anchors including Jake Tapper, John Berman and Kasie Hunt have rebuked the title.

“[Former President Trump] said she was Joe Biden‘s border czar. She wasn‘t,” CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said Wednesday. “She was never put in charge of the border. She was given a much more limited assignment to lead a so-called root causes diplomatic effort trying to address the reasons in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras that people choose to migrate.”

“Many Republicans scoff at this kind of fact-check, they’re like ‘There were a bunch of articles back in 2021, they called her ‘border czar.’ Frankly, those articles were wrong,” Dale added, touting the outlet’s own reports at the time that didn’t embrace the term.

Several hosts on MSNBC similarly pushed back against the label. Symone Sanders, who previously served as Harris’ chief spokeswoman in the Biden administration before joining the network, lumped in the border czar claims against her former boss with “misinformation” about the VP.

“People are going to have to challenge the misinformation,” Sanders said Wednesday on “Morning Joe.” “You already hear folks talking about the ‘border czar.’ She wasn’t the ‘border czar.’ She did diplomacy in Central America, but the campaign is going to have to make that case.”

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ABC’s Jonathan Karl sang from the same sheet of music, saying, “She wasn’t the border czar. That’s what Republicans labeled her. She was given the job of dealing with all the migration that was coming up from Central America. But they will portray her as the one that was in charge of the border, which of course is issue No. 1 for Republicans.”

CBS News pushed back on the label with multiple segments dedicated to the subject on its streaming channel. 

“Vice President Harris was not a border czar,” CBS anchor John Dickerson declared in one of the segments before a correspondent elaborated on what her role was. 

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Several other outlets also bent over backwards to separate Harris from the label. Time Magazine ran the headline, “Kamala Harris Was Never Biden’s ‘Border Czar.’ Here’s What She Really Did,” calling the label “misleading” while admitting it had become a “political liability.” 

NPR said conservatives “made up the inaccurate term ‘border czar,’” insisting the role of controlling the border belongs to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Washington Post accused the Trump campaign of “falsely branding her the nation’s ‘border czar'” in a campaign ad. 

The New York Times got ahead of other news organizations, printing the headline “Why Republicans Keep Calling Kamala Harris the ‘Border Czar” on July 17, four days before Biden announced his exit from the race. 

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“Ms. Harris was not, in fact, appointed border czar, nor was she tasked with addressing the broader problems plaguing the border itself,” the Times wrote last week. “Rather she was deputized by President Biden with the diplomatic mission of solving the ‘root causes’ of migration from countries like Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, tackling the issues that spur people to flee in the first place, like drug violence and lack of economic opportunity.”

As the Secret Service continues to face scrutiny and outrage after former President Donald Trump was nearly killed by an assassin’s bullet on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, the agency reportedly has issued a new code name for vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance.

The Republican senator from Ohio is Trump’s running mate as the 45th president hopes to regain the White House. 

Vance’s Secret Service code name is “Bobcat,” according to the Daily Mail, citing a friend of Vance’s. Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump-Vance campaign for comment as well as to the Secret Service.  

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Secret Service code names are given to presidents, vice presidents, first ladies and other high-profile persons under the agency’s protection. 

They once had a real cloak-and-dagger purpose to help protect the nation’s top leaders. 

But these days, in the era of encrypted technology, the names are largely ceremonial and used for ease of communication in fast, high-pressure situations.

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Code names are selected by “sheer whim,” a Secret Service spokesperson once told The Washington Post.

But they do appear to have some connection to the individual’s personal history or heritage. And note the alliteration of code names within families, said to be tradition. 

Here’s a look at some known Secret Service code names, as reported by Britannica and other sources. 

Bobcat

Vice presidential candidate Vance. “Bobcats” is the nickname for both Ohio University and Breathitt County High School, in Jackson, Kentucky, the family hometown Vance profiled in “Hilbilly Elegy,” his bestselling 2016 memoir. 

Capri

First lady Jill Biden, married to Celtic. 

Celtic

President Joe Biden. He was Renegade’s vice president when he first earned a code name that pays tribute to his Irish roots.

Dancer

First lady Rosalynn Carter, married to Deacon. Her other code name was Lotus Petal.  

Deacon

President Jimmy Carter. It “reflected his deeply religious faith,” noted Britannica.

Eagle

President Bill Clinton. “Some speculated that the code name concerned his association with the Boy Scouts,” said Britannica, given that “Eagle Scout” is the organization’s top rank.

Evergreen

First lady Hillary Clinton, married to Eagle. 

Hoosier

Vice President Mike Pence. He hails from Indiana — the Hoosier State. 

Hummingbird

Second lady Karen Pence, married to Hoosier. 

Lace

First lady Jackie Kennedy. A tribute, apparently, to her elegant style and an alliteration with her husband’s code name. 

Lancer

President John F. Kennedy. The “code name was apt, given that his administration was often compared to Camelot … of which Lancelot was a legendary knight,” according to Britannica.  

Lyric

Caroline Kennedy. A prophetic nickname: President Kennedy’s daughter was the inspiration for Neil Diamond’s sing-a-long hit, “Sweet Caroline,” written in 1969, six years after her father was assassinated.

Muse

First lady Melania Trump, married to Mogul. Perhaps a tribute to the former model’s inspirational beauty. 

Mogul

President Donald Trump. He wanted the code name “Humble,” Britannica said, adding that “the Secret Service opted for something … a little less humble.”

Passkey

President Gerald Ford, who succeeded Nixon. 

Pioneer

Vice president Kamala Harris, who reportedly picked the name in August 2020 shortly after, like Vance, she was tapped as a VP candidate. 

Rainbow

First lady Nancy Reagan, married to Rawhide.  

Rawhide

President Ronald Reagan. Reagan appeared in several westerns and often wore a cowboy hat while campaigning to be governor of California.

Renaissance

First lady Michelle Obama, married to Renegade. 

Renegade

President Barack Obama. He “opted for this moniker after being presented with a list of names beginning with the letter ‘R,’” Time magazine reported in 2021. 

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Searchlight

President Richard Nixon. His Secret Service nickname “is deeply ironic,” Time magazine and others reported, given the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon’s presidency. 

Sunburn

Sen. Ted Kennedy. “The pale, Irish-Catholic New Englander had to suffer this code name” while running for president in 1980, according to Time Magazine.

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Tempo

First lady Laura Bush, married to Trailblazer (see two names down).  

Timberwolf

President George H.W. Bush. Perhaps the top-dog nickname is an homage to his role as patriarch of a political dynasty.  

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Trailblazer

President George W. Bush. A “complimentary” code name, Britannica noted.

Tranquility

First lady Barbara Bush and mother of another president. “Snowbank” was apparently an alternate code name for her. 

Tumbler

Also used for George W. Bush, when his father Timberwolf was president. 

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker slammed the Paris Olympics opening ceremony after one of the performances included drag queens among other performers parodying “The Last Supper.” 

Butker, who went viral back in May for sharing his faith-based views during a commencement speech at a Catholic college in Kansas, took to social media to share his take. 

“This is crazy,” he wrote on a post in his Instagram Stories.

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He also added a scripture from the Bible. 

“Be not deceived, God is not mocked.” 

In a clip of the post shared by Butker on his social media, several drag queens and other performers can be seen mocking the scene famously painted by Leonardo da Vinci, which depicts Jesus and his apostles sharing a final meal before the crucifixion. 

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The performance, which also included a young child, drew harsh criticism.

Other acts during the opening ceremony also received mixed reviews from viewers on social media. In one scene, a woman and two men were seen embracing – seemingly suggesting a ménage à trois. 

A headless depiction of Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to the French Revolution, also received criticism. 

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Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening ceremony, said the inspiration behind all the performances was to reinterpret the way the world sees France. 

“The extraordinary thing is that everyone in France and the rest of the world has an idea of what France is all about. And I want to play with that, that’s where I want to start from – breaking down clichés, because clichés come along other things,” he said, according to the Olympics website.

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